Daily Devotion

January 17, 2006

Psa 119:19-20 KJV I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. (20) My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

Home is where you take off your armor.
Home is where you do not fear.
Home is where your heart can rest at ease.
Home is where everything is clear and understood because,
Home is where you feel a sense of “kin”.
Home is where you are free first-class citizen.
Home is where you take off your shoes.
Home is where you sit in an armchair and rest your legs for a while.
Home is where you are free to serve those you love and care about.
Home is where you receive the fair and true unbiased judgment of God.
Home is where you partake of the loving merciful abundance of the great Father.
Home is where you can love God freely, even in extravagance.
Home is where you are not a stranger.
Home; home is where we all want to go…return!

Any one who loves God is a stranger in this world. We are foreigners, pilgrims, strangers on this earth (Heb 11:13-16). There was a time, oh, a long time ago when “Home” was on this earth, East of Eden (Gen 2:8). God had put us there, until such a time when it seems that we had to learn how we had it, by “Home” being taken away from us. To foster hope in us, through the Holy Spirit Jesus gave us a spiritual connection with “Home”, but one day, “home” will return to us in all Its glory, and we will live in it forever.(Rev 21:1-4).

When you prepare to go somewhere, especially if it is for a long time, all the more if its forever, you unplug from your present life; you make preparations for your arrival, you pack and you stand there waiting for the train or plane, you do not just stay home and continue life as usual. Are you one of thoise who confess with their mouth that they wilkl spend eternity in heaven, but live as if it were a fairy tale? At the end of the day, what have you done for your “preparations”? Are you one of those who will miss and regret all the things of this earth, who will feel uncomfortable losing them? Oh dear child; how can you content yourself with making this world you “Home”. This is a disappointment to Me. Is that all you expect of Me? Don’t you know what the future holds? Read My Holy Book and learn to desire “Home”.

For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
(Isa 64:4 KJV)

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
(Mat 6:19-20 KJV)